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The Cannon Group, Inc. was an American group of companies, including Cannon Films, which produced films from 1967 to 1994. [2] The extensive group also owned, amongst others, a large international cinema chain and a video film company that invested heavily in the video market, buying the international video rights to several classic film libraries.
Cannon Pictures [661] March 3, 1993: American Samurai: A Global Pictures Production: Cannon Video [662] March 12, 1993: Street Knight: A Mark DiSalle Production: Cannon Pictures [663] April 16, 1993: No Place to Hide: An Alan Amiel Production: Cannon Pictures [664] April 21, 1993: Walker, Texas Ranger: One Riot, One Ranger [TV] A Cannon ...
The word cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning "large tube", which came from the Latin canna, in turn originating from the Greek κάννα (kanna), "reed", [16] and then generalised to mean any hollow tube-like object. [17] [18] [19] The word has been used to refer to a gun since 1326 in Italy and 1418 in England.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films is a 2014 Australian-American documentary film written and directed by Mark Hartley. It tells the story of cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus who headed The Cannon Group . [ 2 ]
A year after the purchase, a cash-strapped Cannon sold most of the film library to Weintraub Entertainment Group. [83] They also sold their stake in the video venture inherited from Thorn EMI (which had been renamed as HBO/Cannon Video in the meantime), resulting in HBO running the video label alone from that point forward. [84] [85]
Cannon was born on September 6, 1953, in Hartford, Connecticut. [1] The daughter of a ballroom dancer, Cannon was raised in Laguna Beach, California. [2] [3] She was introduced to acting by Judy Farrell, wife of actor Mike Farrell. [4] In 1974, Cannon married commercial director Richard Chambers.
Sleeping Beauty (alternatively: Cannon Movie Tales: Sleeping Beauty) is a 1987 American/Israeli fantasy film, part of the 1980 film series Cannon Movie Tales.It is directed by David Irving and stars Tahnee Welch, Morgan Fairchild, Nicholas Clay and Sylvia Miles.
William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series Cannon.